MEGHAN MARKLE, Prince Harry’s girlfriend, has revealed how her mixed raced heritage helped her to get more auctions as a young actress.

The 35-year-old actress, who plays the role of Rachel Zane in TV drama suits, and has been linked to Prince Harry for about a year.

Now the stunning brunette has revealed that one aspect of her physicality helped her when it came to bagging roles.

Speaking at the Create & Cultivate conference in Atlanta in 2016, Meghan Markle said: “Because I’m biracial I was able to get into so many more rooms because they didn’t exactly know where they could put me.”

However, she revealed that with this opportunity came a lot more disappointments.

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About her parent’s relationship, Meghan wrote: “I like to think he was drawn to her sweet eyes and her Afro, plus their shared love of antiques. Whatever it was, they married and had me."

Meghan wrote about her pride in being mixed race on The Tig, which has since been closed down.

She wrote: “My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American.”

“I have come to embrace [it, and] to say who I am, to share where I'm from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman."

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Meghan wrote about her pride in being mixed race on her blog

Meghan threw herself into work after leaving university in 2003 with a double major in theatre and international relations - during which time she took an internship at the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires.

With her mind set on acting, she took whatever work she could get, including posing in a risqué red dress as a ‘briefcase girl' on day time game show Deal or No Deal.

The hardworking Hollywood-hopeful even learned calligraphy to support herself when acting roles were thin on the ground.

Despite what could be described as a slow start the 35-year-old actress did not give up on her dreams.